I need to send a lot of PDFs to my accountant, each one of them in a separate email. Sounds like a good job for Applescript, only problem is I have zero experience with Applescript, and I don't have ...

I'm attempting to start QuickTime from AppleScript and select the camera of my iPhone like I do from QuickTime. I can't seem to make it change the camera.
The script I have now is:
tell application ...

The problem I'm trying to solve is to simply run Google Chrome with the --disable-web-security switch in OSX. Since it appears that I cannot add a switch (argument) to an alias I started looking for ...

I have found the answer to this one before, it is somewhere on this site. However, I couldn't find it, and I searched for quite a while.
When I start the Speech Recognition Server (I use it with my ...

I used Automator with an Applescript to move messages from my inbox to designated folders. When I check, they are all there. If I get another message with a related topic, it seems that both messages ...

I have an applet i made using Applescript which opens an Application and then once it's loaded runs a shell script which unload's Spotlight. I need to make it then wait for me to finish using relevant ...

I have used Automator and I have successfully set up events using it and iCal before.
I would like to play a playlist from my iTunes using Automator, the problem is that there is no "Play Playlist / ...

I frequently have to crop out the top half of a PDF (it's a shipping label) and only print that on A4 paper, instead of the whole label.
I can do this very easily with Adobe Acrobat Pro, by opening ...

I am trying to get a PHP script to execute an Applescript which opens an application.*
PHP is running under the _www user. And while it can execute Applescripts with the osascript command, it can't ...

I am trying to set up an AppleScript that will open some apps (including SugarSync) after startup so I don't need to have them as login items. It works, except that with SugarSync it also opens the ...

I have an AppleScript to save the attachments of an e-mail message. It worked under OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).
Now, with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), it seems that every attempt to access "mail attachments" in ...

Using applescript, I'm copying PY files to a location in OSX. However, they don't compile when I load Python, it seems because the permissions havent been set on the files.
When I look at "get info" ...

I am looking for a way to format multiple word documents (in a same formatting) and then save them as PDF. Specifically:
Format orientation, page margins, page columns, and font.
Save the formatted ...

I'm experimenting with AppleScript and with Python. But the big issue i'm having now is not about Python specifically. The end goal is to be able to write Python scripts that use AppleScript features. ...

I'm trying to build a simple Applescript to control the 'Connect' and 'Pause Protection' buttons in Hotspot shield VPN, but there is no applescript dictionary or menu bars for the programme. Does this ...

snippet 1a
on removeText(searchText, sourceText)
set prevTIDs to text item delimiters of AppleScript
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to searchText
set sourceText to text items of sourceText
...

I am new to using a Mac, and I have used AutoHotKey applications that rebind the mouse scroll wheel (for example, E = scroll up by 1 mouse wheel "tick" of sorts) to a specific window title, eg. "Game ...

I have an application which streams live television, using a rather expensive portable mobile decoder. And for some reason the company that controls the app has decided to limit the screen size of the ...

I would like to show and hide the Mac OS X on-screen software keyboard (fig. 1) with a keystroke, but no actions to do so are available when customizing the keyboard shortcuts via System Preferences.
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I wrote little script to enable/disable screensaver and password check. Idea is that when my iPhone is near to my Mac (Proximity app checking this), screensaver and password check should be disabled.
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I've been using Quicksilver's clipboard module for years but I've always wanted to do this: copy several bits of text. Then paste them as a concat'd list.
I found this Stackoverflow post trying to do ...

I have a mail.app rule set up to run an applescript when incoming emails come in with a certain subject, but it does not trigger. I see the emails in my inbox, and the rule is activated, but it does ...

How can I change the default screenshot name, to whatever I have written on Preview search tool at the time of the screenshot. As a function on terminal or as a script. Using OS X Mavericks. Thanks in ...